Felix Dzerzhinsky or Alexander Nevsky?
From February 25 to March 5, 2021, the Active Citizen website will hold a vote regarding the monument on Lubyanka Square in Moscow.
The background of the story is as follows. In December 2020, Officers of Russia organisation appealed to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a request to evaluate the legality of the demolition of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky. The monument by Yevgeny Vuchetich was dismantled on the square after the failure of the August putsch in 1991. The public organization initiated the procedure to return the monument to Lubyanka (the monument is currently located in Muzeon Park).
On February 19, members of the Council of the Public Chamber of Moscow supported the the idea of the survey among Muscovites to find out their opinion about which historical persona should be dominant on Lubyanka Square. Representatives of the Moscow administration told TASS that they were ready to consider this proposal.
Russiaâs top prosecutor points to Navalnyâs record as convicted criminal
Navalny, earlier put on a wanted list for violating the terms of punishment in the Yves Rocher case, was detained at Moscowâs Sheremetyevo airport Sunday, where he arrived from Berlin; the next day the Khimki city court at an onsite session at a local police station arrested him for 30 days
MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. Russia’s Prosecutor-General Igor Krasnov believes that blogger Alexey Navalny is a person who committed a crime, and not a victim. In the light of the conviction, which was pronounced several years ago and took effect, there is every reason to regard him as a person who committed a crime, he said in an interview to the daily Kommersant, when asked if Navalny was an offender or a victim.